In August 1918, the battlefield of the Western Front was something that no soldier there had yet experienced. For the first time in three and a half years, movement had been restored to the battlefield. …

On 8 August 1918, the British Fourth Army, with French support, attacked astride the Somme River on the Western Front. Germany’s de facto commander-in-chief, General Erich Ludendorff, famously labelled the Amiens offensive, as it is …